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… Taranaki ethnologist Stephenson Percy Smith co-founded the Polynesian Society in 1892 and edited its journal from New Plymouth. Fiction on film John Brodie’s 1952 novel The … Opera singer Dame Malvina Major lived in Taranaki for many years. Festival time Since 1988 the Taranaki Rhododendron …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… Margaret Mahy is New Zealand’s most celebrated writer for children and young adults. In a 55-year career she published more than 120 titles: novels, … reflect her delight in fantasy, magic, adventure, humour, the supernatural and the transformative power of language. …
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… By the 1860s hundreds of thousands of British migrants were beginning to settle in New Zealand. The young and fit were encouraged to sail to … would reduce weight. Between the wars During the interwar years obesity was declared a ‘disease’, but people, …
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Part of story: Body shape and dieting
… was played at Ashburton. In 1950, for a euphoric moment, the South Canterbury team held the Ranfurly Shield, only to … Sporting heroes Three South Canterbury names belong to New Zealand’s sporting history. One of the world’s most … short story writers, Owen Marshall, has lived for many years in Timaru. Street fighting men In Timaru on Boxing Day …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… The local rag Our printing press, telegraph and steam … in 1875, he listed the equipment that printed his town’s newspapers as one of his signs of progress. Almost every … in New Zealand with his regiment in 1847. He left 10 years later and wrote the first major history of New …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… Te Whakataupuka of Ngāi Tahu was born probably in Murihiku (the southern part of the South Island), late in the … century. His father, Honekai, was chief at Ōue, in the New River estuary, and married Kohuwai, the grand-daughter … from Akaroa in 1827. He estimated Te Whakataupuka to be 34 years of age, and described him as 'the most complete model …
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… In the second half of the 20th century syphilis and gonorrhoea … before the advent of penicillin. Chlamydia Chlamydia was New Zealand’s most common sexually transmitted infection in … treatment was developed, death usually resulted within a year. In 2017 there were estimated to be 3,500 people living …
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Part of story: Sexual health
… The son of Christopher Richmond, a barrister, and his wife, … Brothers, engine makers and iron ship builders. For three years from 1845 he served on the staff of I. K. Brunel, … left Gravesend on the Victory on 3 October 1850, bound for New Zealand and intending to settle in Taranaki. An aunt, …
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… born on 29 September 1912 at Ngāhina pā, near Rūātoki, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. His parents were Winiata Piahana … had attended the Tauranga mission house school but in later years spoke little English, was convinced of the value of … by money he had earned as school reporter to a local newspaper. Although he was awarded a scholarship to attend …
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… Pāora Te Pōtangaroa was the son of Ngaehe, of Ngāti Kerei and Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti , … 96 by 30 feet. Having prophesied that it would take eight years to finish the house, he departed to build a rival … Waru were a number of his prophecies which predicted that a new and great power was to come to the people from the …
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… Paul Holmes was New Zealand’s best-known and most influential late twentieth-century broadcaster, straddling the line between serious current affairs presenter and … entailed both announcer and technical tuition and up to a year at a regional radio station. He was posted to 3ZM in …
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… baptised on 13 April at Gosport, Hampshire, England. He was the fifth child and third son of Thomas Williams, a lace … well off until the death of his father in 1804. Two years later, at the age of 14, Henry entered the Royal Navy … halfpay lieutenants, was very high; Henry had to find a new vocation. He worked for a while as a drawing master, but …
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… Gilbert Mair is said to have been born at Whāngārei, New Zealand, on 10 January 1843, the eighth of twelve children of Elizabeth Gilbert Puckey … still exercises great influence over his large following.' Years later Mair provided historian James Cowan with …
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… 8 October 1890 at Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, where his grandfather, a sawmiller, had settled in the late 1850s. The son of … World War Penlington served as a company commander in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in France and Belgium. Gassed at … striving, not for oneself, but for the team. During his 23 years as principal Penlington's high ideals permeated the …
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… Te Rangitāke is thought to have been born in the last years of the eighteenth century, at Manukorihi pā, Waitara. … other tribes of the region, had no idea of the impact the New Zealand Company settlers were to make on their lives. As …
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… used allegorical imagery to explore her own family history, the lives of women and indigenous people, her spirituality, and Pacific and New Zealand history. She worked hard to balance the … centred on stylised palm trees. She was included in the Ten Years of New Zealand Painting exhibition at Auckland City …
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… at Broxton in Cheshire, England, on 1 November 1831. He was the seventh of the thirteen children of John Atkinson and … and the brother nearest him in age, Arthur, spent some years at private boarding schools but were mostly educated … joined the Church of England. Harry became interested in New Zealand while he was at school. His eldest brother, John …
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… Through the early 20th century New Zealand’s newspapers multiplied and expanded. As … as a night subeditor on the Christchurch Press , and for 50 years contributed satirical poems under the name ‘Whim … The heyday of newspapers, 1900–1939 …
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Part of story: Newspapers
… Michael King was New Zealand’s most popular late twentieth-century historian. His best work combined the research-based scholarship of a historian with the … escorting a convoy to northern Russia. King spent his early years in suburban Ngaio, Wellington, where he was taught by …
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… Curnow (known as Allen) was born in Timaru on 17 June 1911, the second of three sons of Tremayne Monro Curnow, an … On his father’s side, Allen Curnow was a fourth-generation New Zealander, the great-grandson of a Scottish-born settler … Waddington and West Lyttelton, where he was dux in his last year, but was not academically ambitious. He enrolled at …
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